Keyframe Operations — Advanced

• -Align to Playhead: Select keyframes and press Ctrl+Shift+K to snap all selected keyframes to the current playhead position. Useful for synchronizing animation events across multiple layers to a specific moment.
• -Distribute Keyframes: Select three or more keyframes on a single track and use Timeline -> Distribute Keyframes -> Evenly in Time to space them at equal intervals between the first and last selected keyframe.
• -Align to First/Last in Selection: Select multiple keyframes and use Timeline -> Align Keyframes -> To First Selected or To Last Selected to collapse all keyframes to the same time position.

Select a range of keyframes and use Timeline -> Scale Time of Selected Keyframes:

• -Enter a scale percentage (e.g., 200% makes the animation take twice as long)
• -Or enter absolute start and end frame numbers
• -Or enter a duration in frames or seconds

The keyframe positions are redistributed proportionally within the specified time range. Values are not changed — only timing is affected.

Select a range of keyframes on one or more tracks and use Timeline -> Reverse Selected Keyframes.

The keyframes are reordered so that the animation plays backward — what was the end state becomes the start state, and vice versa. Timing is mirrored around the center of the selection.

With multiple keyframes selected (across multiple tracks):

• -Ctrl+Shift+F9 — set all to Linear interpolation
• -Ctrl+F9 — set all to Ease In
• -Shift+F9 — set all to Ease Out
• -F9 — set all to Ease In-Out

These shortcuts are the fastest way to change easing across a large selection simultaneously.

Hold keyframes maintain the value at the keyframe until the next keyframe, with no interpolation. Uses:

• -Discrete state changes — a shape is in state A, then at frame 30 it instantly becomes state B
• -Blink effects — alternating between opacity 0 and 100 with hold keyframes creates a hard blink
• -Step animations — property value counts up or down in whole steps

Converting to hold: Right-click any keyframe -> "Toggle Hold Keyframe."

To convert a range: Select all keyframes in a range across one or more tracks -> Right-click -> "Convert to Hold."